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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Tonight I have a beautiful, hand-made pendant to show you - part of a new line of hand-made jewelry by BKD Signature called Glam and Glitz Collection featuring nail polish from My Ten Friends! This new line went live yesterday, Friday, August 30, 2013! Please stay tuned to the end for a money-saving Coupon Code AND a chance to WIN one of your very own! (It's a teardrop pendant necklace with Space Sauce! Pic at the end!)

My Bits and Bobs posts have been pretty popular and they're my favorite types of posts to do, so I thought I'd stop by this weekend with another one! Might make this a weekly thing if you guys keep enjoying them!

Friday, August 30, 2013

Tonight I have a brand new collection from Literary Lacquers to show you called the Literary Liquors Collection, which launches September 5, 2013 at Noon MDT. (That's 1 PM Central time and 2 PM Eastern.)

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Thursday again - time for a thrifty find! Tonight's thrifty polish is a 99¢ polish- Essence Colour and Go Movie Star. And at the end I'll have a grey comparison for you with Dior and Nails Inc.

Movie Star is a medium grey creme. No issues at all - creamy smooth formula, easy application and it dries to s high shine. Two coats for full opacity and no top coat for the photos.

How does it compare to other greys? These 3 were the closest I have.

no top coat on any of them

Perfecto is darker with blue undertones. Paddington is darker with green undertones and Gris Montagne is a light-to-medium grey that's a few shades lighter than Movie Star. All cremes. All perfect formulas.

Dior polishes retail for $24.00. Nails Inc. polishes retail for $9.50 (here in the States) and Essence polishes retail for 99¢ in the smaller bottles and $1.99 in the shaped bottles.

What do you think? Personally I need all 4 of these - they are totally different as far as color. Formula and application are similar.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Tonight I have a couple of Darling Diva polishes to show you: Bad Girl and Sakura! I picked these to show you tonight because I've been rather stuck on Autumn for a while now and it is, after all, still summer. The first one, Sakura is perfect for summer! Bad Girl is an all-season polish.

Today I thought I'd show you a gorgeous polish from Girly Bits that is being RETIRED SOON - I don't want you to miss out if you haven't grabbed it already. And it's also in keeping with my current obsession with all things Autumn right now: Crunchy Leaves.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Tonight I have a quick comparison for you of a couple of peach creme polishes: Illamasqua Purity and Sinful Colors Skylark.

Purity is a bit warmer and more orange than Skylark. As you can see, they're certainly not dupes. It's not the best color on me, so I really don't think I need both, but I get a bit less of a "zombie hands" look with Purity than with Skylark.

Illamasqua polishes retail for $17.00 in the States while Sinful Colors polishes retail for $1.99.

Both had the about the same formula. Not really a nickel's worth of difference between them in that area. As is the nature of pale cremes like this, they're a tad thicker than darker polishes in general. With that, you need to use very thin coats - two will do, but make them thin because they don't really self-level well at all.

I've been doing what I call extend-a-mani nail art for quite a while. Mainly because I'm lazy. But also because I was never great at nail art and needed the practice. So last year, I started trying a little nail art on my mani before removing it. I got a little practice and it didn't really matter if I messed up because I was removing it anyway. Plus, when they actually turned out okay, I'd leave it and wear the next day. Bonus!

So now, when I'm tired of my mani, I just add a little nail art and wear it another day - extend-a-mani! I've done quite a few posts on these and got a great response, so I've decided to start showing you my extend-a-manis on a more regular basis.

Yesterday, I was wearing Illamasqua Baptiste. Last night I used a striping brush, a plain white creme (I use Wet n Wild Wild Shine French White Creme) and Essence Colour and Go Break Through, each alone, and then mixed for another coordinating shade and just did free-handed, random stripes.

I think it's a cute, very quick and EASY way to extend your mani. And it's free-hand and random, so you really can't mess up. And if you do, I'll tell you a little secret...these photos are always close-ups. At arm's length, you really can't see the mistakes.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Today was the first day of school here, as in many places. I thought I could almost hear the collective sighs of relief blending with the moans of anguish of parents and children respectively. Even I was ditching summer today for wishes of Autumn by wearing fall colors on my nails. So, I decided to show you one last glimpse of summer in all her glory with a coral.

Monday. It's true you "can't stop that day." But you can cheer that bugger up a bit! Today I have 3 polishes from BB Couture to show you that will do just that. I am so ready for Autumn and while I can't bring about season change, I can wear a little of it on my nails to make me happy. These three shades remind me of Fall.

Friday, August 23, 2013

If you're like me and find water marbling too difficult, I have a product for you. Tonight I'll be showing you a water marbling kit called Marbleous Nails, the brainchild of Veronica, a 13 year old super girl! Don't let her age fool you. Before I decided to review this product, I checked her out and believe me, this girl has it together better than most adults. If I'd had her brain power, go-get-'em attitude, organizational skills and pluck at 13, I'd own the world by now! And she may very well do that.

So what is this "kit?" Well if you're intimidated just by the thought of how difficult water marbling might be, I think you'll like this. It's taken all the work out of assembling everything you'll need. Well, except the water.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

LeGEND - wait for it - ARY! Well how could I NOT get that out of the way first? For How I Met Your Mother fans, no explanation is necessary and for those who aren't, well it's not a requirement to think this collection from 365 Days of Color is legendary. (Thank goodness. Because I'm not a fan of the show *ducks and dodges the stones I can feel being hurled my way now* The collection, however, is really lovely!)

LAUNCHES TOMORROW

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The HIMYM Collection is, of course, inspired by Sunny's love of the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

It's THURSDAY! Ever-closer to the weekend again! And it's time for another Thrifty Thursday installment. Today, I have a fantastic RED from the Essence Colour and Go line - Do You Speak Love.

Do You Speak Love is a medium blue-based red crelly. The bottles are 8mL and retail for $1.99. I'm not sure where else they're sold, but Ulta carries them and that's where I got mine. The crelly formula leaves you with the juicy, shiny look with 2 coats for opacity. I used two coats and one coat of Poshe top coat for the photos. No issues at all to report and on day 2, still not even a smidge of tip wear.

Sorry about the reflection of my camera and fingers! But that just shows how truly shiny this one is. It's a great red crelly and for $1.99 I'd recommend it. What do YOU think?

Today's polish is one of those "Yes, I think you NEED this one" polishes. I mean there are several of those, but this one really surprised me! It's Dollish Polish Space, The Final Frontier - Hyperdrive. And for all you trekkies, I need not explain!

Dollish Polish Space, The Final Frontier - Hyperdrive is a blackened teal scattered holographic with a perfect, creamy, self-leveling formula. To be honest, I've worn this with one coat when I've had to be out of the house in a hurry. But for the swatches below, I'm showing you two coats and no top coat. No issues to report at all.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Today I have three polishes from Contrary Polish's Color Context Collection to show you - Blood Orange, Greenhouse and Indigo Rose. These are my first Contrary Polishes and I'm impressed at the depth and complexity of the shimmers!